the Punjab, and another, J. alata, Poir. (Bot. Reg. t. 1876), 
as far west as Portugal and Algeria. 
Descr.—Bulb ovoid, six lines in diameter, tunics brown. 
Leaves about six, three inches and a half long, gradually 
tapering from a base six lines wide, rigid, margins in- 
curved, white and cartilaginous. Scape short, one-flowered ; 
spathes an inch and a quarter long; flowers two inches 
and a half in diameter. Perianth-tube slender, an inch 
long; outer segments almost pandurate, two inches long, 
silvery-grey, closely striped with reddish-purple, apex 
entirely reddish-purple; crest yellow, on a white ground 
spotted with purple; inner segments oblanceolate, three- 
quarters of an inch long, and a quarter of an inch wide, 
silvery-grey, closely striped with reddish-purple. Style- 
arms erect; crests suborbicular, about two-thirds of an 
inch in diameter.—C. H. Wricur. 
Figs. 1 and 2, anthers ; 3, part of a style-arm :—all enlarged, 
